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- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
Dishonesty and Its Organizational Implications, she discussed several laboratory and field experiments meant to uncover factors that lead people to make unethical choices. "We seem to face this type of View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Several managers praised this as an excellent idea, but it was never implemented. It was apparent that conflicts between the sales department and the distribution department were to blame—but no one was willing to confront the View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales managers who can manage and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
conflicts between work and life more broadly defined. Joe Violette suggests that at least in the project-oriented environment in which he works, one should "Make your family a part of your work team and you'll create a good work-life...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
illustrates Hindustan Unilever Limited's conflict resolution and people development policies using a "leading from the middle" example. The story centers on the challenges faced by an HR manager at a factory who must meet View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Despite widespread rhetoric about the need for organizational agility, an astonishing number of businesses stay stuck in neutral when they need to implement a new strategy. Consider the situation that Lynne Camp faced in July 2000. Camp,...
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
process, we have weakened critical institutions and the principles and standards of judgment that ought to stand as a protection against conflicts of interest. We need solutions that are driven by a much broader conception of what went...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
cutting-edge company again, that would be even better. Second, Mayer should begin thinking about the organizational fallout from her decision. Some observers suggest that she may simply want many people who work from home to leave...
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- 2011
- Chapter
Explaining the Loss of Community: Competing Logics and Institutional Change in the U.S. Banking Industry
By: Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang and Juan Almandoz
Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Banking Industry;
United States
Marquis, Christopher, Zhi Huang, and Juan Almandoz. "Explaining the Loss of Community: Competing Logics and Institutional Change in the U.S. Banking Industry." In Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, edited by Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration Authors:E. Miron-Spektor, F. Gino, and L. Argote Publication:Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
multiparty risk and disaster management, namely that the organizational challenge is to enable multiple actors and subunits with competing and often conflicting values and expertise to establish a virtual,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- March – April 2008
- Article
Interorganizational Trust, Governance Choice, and Exchange Performance
By: Ranjay Gulati and Jackson Nickerson
This paper looks at when and how preexisting interorganizational trust influences the choice of governance and in turn the performance of exchange relationships. We theorize that preexisting interorganizational trust complements the choice of governance mode (make,...
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Corporate Governance;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Improvement;
Conflict and Resolution;
Trust
Gulati, Ranjay, and Jackson Nickerson. "Interorganizational Trust, Governance Choice, and Exchange Performance." Organization Science 19, no. 2 (March–April 2008): 1–21.
- November 1988 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor
By: Linda A. Hill
At a time of great changes in the corporate environment, Larry Yoshino, a design lab manager at Parsons Controls Corp., faces a delay in a costly defense project due to the inability of one of his subordinates to gain the cooperation of engineers at Parsons'...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Conflict Management;
Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Employees;
Competitive Strategy;
Projects
Hill, Linda A. "Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor." Harvard Business School Case 489-084, November 1988. (Revised July 1997.)
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine...
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Carmen Nobel
- 2019
- Working Paper
Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket
By: Robert Simons
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,...
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Self-interest;
Economist;
Moral Philosophers;
Regulation;
Capture;
Organization Design;
Economy Theory;
Organization Theory;
Management Theory;
Commitment;
Controls;
Governance;
Customers;
Conflict of Interests;
Business or Company Management;
Competition;
Organizational Design;
Business Education;
Agency Theory;
Economics;
Theory;
Boundaries
Simons, Robert. "Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-045, October 2015. (Revised January 2019.)
- June 2001
- Supplement
GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (B)
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) has proved successful at GE. Yet, when Michael McIlwrath, new counsel at an Italian subsidiary, attempted to translate it to his company, problems arose. He had to gain internal acceptance, and explain the concept of early mediation to a...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Globalization;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Effectiveness;
Problems and Challenges;
Conflict of Interests;
Complexity;
Italy;
New York (state, US)
Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 801-453, June 2001.
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
on retail prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52208 January 2017 Journal of Conflict Resolution Beyond Zeroes and Ones: The Intensity and Dynamics of Civil Conflict By:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability Here's how these play out on the...
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